Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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I was in St Paul's Cathedral on Saturday, with some Italian friends. We went down to the crypt.

There were the tombs of Nelson, Wellington, memorials to presidents of the Royal Academy and to military men galore. One England. Yesterday, I happened to pass

unassuming Bun Hill Fields in East London, the last home of some of the greats of non-conformist

England, of John Bunyan, William Blake, another England, a different account of who the English are.

I now live in a thriving, if rabidly unequal London, yet my parents live in a northern village near a town

where the last two department stores are closing down, the town will be hollowed out. Different

England's, different Englishnesses again.

Yesterday was Shakespeare's birthday and St George's Day,

the day when the English celebrate their own identity.

Yet it's always been a more muted affair than St Patrick's or St Andrew's Day.

Yet with a Scottish referendum on independence round the corner and with politicians

beginning to talk about England, Ed Miliband said last year, we have been too nervous to talk of

English pride and character. Nightwaves devotes the whole of this evening's programme to England

and to Englishness, to its present importance and to its uses more than

its abuses. We'll talk about the culture of England and Englishness, with the writer who's

written a book Real England and a theatre director from Chingford. We'll be discussing

the Anglo-Saxons subject of a season on Radio 3 and the first persons to be called English.

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